False front for safes or vaults.



NITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

HENRY D. HIBBARD, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE HIBBARD,RODMAN, ELY SAFE COMPANY, OF YORK, N. Y.

FALSE FRONT FOR SAFES OR VAULTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 679,375, dated July 30,1901. Application filed October 31, 1900. Serial No. 34,992. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY D. HIBBARD, a citizen of the United States,residing in Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in False Fronts forSafes or Vaults, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to safes or vaults, and more particularly to themeans for supporting the door on the body thereof, the object of theinvention being to provide an improved false front or frame for such astructure and method of assembling the same, thereby to furnish a meansof supporting the door without the necessity of casting lugs upon thebody.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification,Figure 1 is a front view of a vault-body with this improved false frontor frame secured thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken in line a a,Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view, on an enlarged scale,showing the method of securing the front to the vault-body.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in theseveral figures of the drawings.

In the manufacture of large-sized vaults it is not always practicable tocast the necessarily large-sized lugs for the hinge-pintles on thefront, and consequently it is necessary to provide a practicable meansfor carrying the hinge. Moreover, it is desirable to construct the vaultof unmachineable metal such, for instance, as manganese steel by which Imean that character of steel patented by Hadfield. When unmachineablemetal is used, however, by which is meant that metal which cannot bedrilled or bored in any practicable manner, it is a tedious and also anexpensive operation to grind the massive ears or lugs when cast of thematerial forming the vault, especially when it is desired to form aplurality of sets of such lugs for the reception of the pintle orpintles. Therefore it is desirable to form the lugs of soft steel,whereby they can be more easily worked. I accomplish this object byproviding means formed of machineable metal, such as soft steel, forcarrying the door-hinge.

To accomplish the present object, I provide the safe or vault body 2with a false front or frame, (designated in a general way by A,) whichmay be formed of any kind of metal, preferably of soft steel, wherebythe lugs and other parts thereof may be readily Worked by ordinarytools. This frame may of course conform in shape to the general shape ofthe safe or valt and may, for instance, be circular or of other shapes,if desired. In the present instance it is shown as an oblong frame,comprising a forwardly extending flange 2 and laterally-extendingflanges 3 and 4, by-means of which latter it is secured to the safe orvault body, it being shown. secured to the front thereof in the presentinstance, such front being cast with soft-metal inserts 5, wherebythreaded openings may be formed in such inserts for the reception of theframe-bolts 6, which are shown projecting from the front. Of course itwill be readily seen that the removal of this false front will in nowise assist in entering the safe, the body and door of which may beformed, if desired, in the manner shown and described in mycontemporaneously-pending applications, Serial and Serial No. 696,394,filed November 14, 1898, now Patents Nos. 662,428 and 662,429,respectively, dated November 27, 1900. This false front is provided withthe necessary number of lugs 7 for the reception of the hinge pintle orpintles 8. The hinge 12, which secures the door to the false front, andthereby to the body of the vault, is shown as a crane-hinge pivotallyconnected to lugs of the door and to the lugs 7 of such false front. Theconstruction of this hinge, however, constitutes the subject-matter of aseparate application filed simultaneously herewith, Serial No. 35,196,and therefore a further description thereof is not deemed necessaryherein.

In the present instance the false front is shown having its flange 3extending inwardly and conforming to the shape of the doorway, beingpreferably shaped to conform to a N0. 679,976,.filed May 7, 1898, 1

flange or ring of metal 10, which is located around the doorway, thepurpose of which is clearly set forth in said applications abovereferred to, while its flange 4: is located ext-eriorly.

Bymeans of this false front it will be seen that the hinge may belocated entirely within the same, so as not to project therefrom.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the present improvementcomprises a pair of members, one shown as a body having soft-' metalinserts therein and the other shown as a false front united tovsuch bodymember by means, such as bolts, projecting from the' front member intosaid inserts.

Having described my invention, what I Y claim is-- 1. A safe or vaultbody having soft-metal inserts located therein, and a false front orframe having an outwardly-extending flange andsecured to said body bybolts projecting from said front into said inserts.

2. A safe or vaultbody the front of which is provided with soft-metalinserts, and a false i front or frame secured to such body-front bybolts projecting into said inserts, said frame comprising aforwardly-extending flange having located on the interior thereof lugsor ears for the reception of the hinge pintle or; pintles, and alsohaving laterally-extending flanges for the reception of such bolts.

3. A safe or vault body provided with a doorway and around such doorwaywith a bead or flange, and a false front or frame bolted to such bodyand having a part thereof in engagement with said bead or flange.

4:. A false front or frame for safes or vaults comprising one or morelaterally-extending bolt-receiving flanges and an outwardly-extendingflange adapted to completely surround all sides of the safe or vaultjamb.

5. Asafe or vault bodymemberhaviugsoftmetal inserts located therein, anda structure secured to such body member by means projecting from saidstructure into said inserts.

6. A safe or vault body the front of which is provided with soft-metalinserts, and a false front or frame secured to such body-front by boltsprojecting from said front into said inserts.

7. A safe or vault body having soft-metal inserts located therein, and afalse structure or frame secured to said body by means pro- P jectingtherefrom into said inserts.

8. A-safe or vault body having soft-metal inserts, and a false frame orfront secured to such body by means projecting into such inserts, saidfalse front having lugs or cars for the reception of the hinge-pintle.

HENRY D. HIBBARD.

Witnesses:

0. A. WEED, CHARLES FINKLER.

